Classroom Quotes - page 2

A classroom. People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results. (James Patterson)
I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult. View quote
Lydia Davis
[Voters] "sent me to Washington to vote no against excessive Federal spending, against forced busing of little schoolchildren, and to vote no against the forces who have driven God out of the classroom. View quote
Jesse Helms
How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it. View quote
Allan Houston
I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety. View quote
Alona Tal
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. View quote
Arne Duncan
I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school. View quote
David Wenham
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. View quote
Eli Broad
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world. (Erin Gruwell)
Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom. View quote
Ernest Istook
I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me. View quote
Jeremy Miller
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom. View quote
Major Owens
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. View quote
Mickey Hart
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom. View quote
Pat Summitt
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market. View quote
Paul Tudor Jones
Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros. View quote
Rebecca Lobo
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. View quote
Sal Albanese
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom. View quote
Scott Walker
Let students use technologies in the classroom. (Weili Dai)
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. View quote
Wendy Craig
My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure. View quote
Willard Wigan
What sex is to the biology classroom, stocks and investment riskiness is to the sophomore economics lecture hall. View quote
Paul Samuelson
Students' role doesn't end in the classroom. Student-led movements have always been a part in changing history and fulfilling peoples' dreams of achieving freedom and dignity. View quote
Tawakkol Karman